Park of the Buttes Chaumont Paris : Paris Tourism

Located at the North-East of Paris, the park des Buttes-Chaumont was one of the multiples parks Haussmann ordered for Paris. Napoleon the Third desired to engage a politic of environmental protection, and ordered a deserted bloc to be transformed into a park. Jean Charles Alphand, with the help of the gardener Barillet Deschamps, the architect Davioud, and the engineer Belgrand created the relief with dynamite. Every element of this park was made by hand: the lake, the temple of Sybil, the cave and its waterfalls, the two bridges amog them the bridge of suicide, the narrow alleys, the woods… A special flora is shown to the public: a plane tree from Orient, a nut tree from America and one from Byzance, two ginkos bilobas, an elm tree from Siberia, a 100-year-old Lebanese tree. From this hill, whose name comes from the association of the words bald and mount, one can see Monmartre and the Sacré Coeur.